It took me a while to get involved in the restructuring debate.. or is it a debacle? Like they say of the stock market, ‘when your gateman starts to tell you what stocks to buy, that is the time to get out of the market’. No offenses meant at gatemen. They too are financially savvy...
A few years ago I wrote a book with the above title. It was an idea that I needed to document. It was in the time that the world of Economics was buzzing with the problem of income inequality. It still is. Beyond being concerned with how incomes were diverging between the top 1% (who...
I believe that our youth and the not-so-young should be deliberately focused on by our leaders, in solving our myriads of problems and that as we solve those problems, we will unleash value and productivity and therefore government revenue will increase. To increase the chances of that happening, we need to organise and tidy up...
Extract from Chinese president, Xi Jinping’s 2018 New Year address: “Our GDP rose to the level of 80 trillion yuan (12.3 trillion US dollars). Over 13 million urban and rural jobs were created. Our old-age insurance system now covers more than 900 million people, and 1.35 billion people are covered by basic medical insurance. More...
Forgive Nigeria. Don’t ask me what for. Just do it. There is everything to love about this country. And very little to hate. And rather than hate, why don’t we build it together. We the inhabitants, having been socialised in a wrong way, seem to be the issue. As I concluded an article on the...
In this interview with Editor-in-Chief, Musikilu Mojeed, the National Chairman of the Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP), Tope Fasua, reviews the three-year tenure of the President Muhammadu Buhari government, saying the administration has done more damage to Nigeria than all others before it. He also speaks on the growth of his party and analyses how...
Jega, Gambari, Onaiyekan, others raise concern over 2019 election INEC chairman Prof Mahmoud Yakubu As Ekiti State governorship election draws near, the tempo of political activities has increased. According to the timetable released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the election will hold on July 14 this year. Aside from the two major political...
Left to me, every able bodied Nigerian man or woman should be lunging forward, throwing themselves into rescuing our collapsed country. Someone will say that this state of collapse has been our perpetual and now natural mode; always dancing on the brink and managing to save ourselves just when everyone thought we would tip over...
…we had no vision; no critical mass of visionary leaders who could imagine the future and ensure that Nigeria moved in a way that provided for eventualities. And the few we had perhaps weren’t prepared to take every risk to ensure they got Nigeria where it needed to be. I like to bust myths. I...
We all heard about the director in Kogi State civil service who committed suicide after being owed his remuneration for 11 months. Another civil servant in Kogi was shown on social media weeping over his dead daughter, whose hospital bills he could not afford because he was being owed as well. I received two separate...
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